Anarchy and everyday life

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Anarchy and everyday life
Studio album by Antilopen Gang

Publication
(s)

20th January 2017

Label (s) JKP , Warner Music

Format (s)

CD, vinyl, digital

Genre (s)

Hip hop

Title (number)

14th

running time

53:01 min

occupation

production

  • Roe Beardie
  • Antelope gear
chronology
Sewage
(2015) 		Anarchy and everyday life Abort Abort

(2020)

Anarchy and Everyday Life is the third studio album by the German hip-hop trio Antilopen Gang . It was released on January 20, 2017 on the JKP label . It is distributed by Warner Music .

background

In October 2016, the Antilopen Gang announced that they would release a new album. At the same time, the tour dates for 2017 were announced.

In January 2017, the band also announced that in addition to the new album Anarchy and Everyday Life, twelve old songs had been rearranged and recorded as punk rock versions. These are with the participation of guest singers such as Bela B. ( Die Ärzte ), Campino ( Die Toten Hosen ), MC Motherfucker ( terror group ), Jan "Monchi" Gorkow ( Feine Sahne Fischfilet ) and Wölfi ( Die Kassierer ) from the (German) Punk scene released as a bonus album under the name Atombombe on Germany . The album was completed within a few weeks. As an instrumentalist, Samuel Dickmeis alias Männi , who was already involved as a drummer in live gigs of the Antilopen Gang, took part in the punk album.

The album was released on January 20, 2017 via Jochen's small record company (JKP), the Die Toten Hosen label . The version with the album Atombombe auf Deutschland was released as a double CD and a triple LP including the CD version of the album.

Album cover

The cover shows a modern holiday resort with children sitting on a meadow in unreal 3D graphics that are supposed to be reminiscent of new-build advertising. The house is to be seen as an allusion to the cover of monarchy and everyday life of the false colors that were the inspiration for the title. Its cover showed an old building in need of renovation with an advertising panel. The shadow of a fighter plane just dropping a bomb can be seen on the lawn.

Track list

Regular album

# title Feature guest length
1 The Trojan horse 4:05
2 Collective of patients 3:48
3 Pizza 3:01
4th fiasco 4:20
5 Tindermatch 2:56
6th Alf 3:40
7th best regards Fatoni 3:26
8th Help 3:30
9 Quarry pond 2:41
10 Joints in the parquet Schorsch Cameroon 4:17
11 Flop 3:45
12 RAF retirees 4:40
13 Praise the lie 4:17
14th Yesterday wasn't better 4:30

Bonus album atomic bomb on Germany

# title Guest singer length
1 piece of dirt MC motherfucker 3:56
2 Anti everything action Claus Lüer 4:23
3 Pizza Bela B 2:52
4th sewage Peter Hein 3:46
5 In love Monchi 3:08
6th Fuck the university Cecilia Boström 3:09
7th concrete Harry Rag 3:01
8th Beate Zschöpe listens to U2 Jan Windmeier 3:23
9 Grandchildren's trick Campino 2:33
10 The golden jackhammer Ingo Donot 3:54
11 Alcelopes Wolfgang Wendland 3:32
12 110 Dirk Jora 4:40

Music style and lyrics

The title of the album alludes to the Fehlfarben classic monarchy and everyday life and also refers to the punk background of the band members.

In terms of content, the album moves in a humorous, sometimes ironic, politically left context. In the song Tindermatch, for example, a fictional love story of a right-wing propagandist with the name "Lutz" (meaning is most likely Lutz Bachmann von Pegida ) and a Salafist counterpart named "Denis" ( Denis Cuspert , formerly Deso Dogg, later with the Islamic State ) is told Get to know Tinder via the dating app . RAF pensioner tells of members of the Red Army faction who are now sitting in the retirement home . the text is basically about people who got stuck who once belonged to the radical left scene.

In their title Baggersee, they ironically demand that the state of Germany should give way to a baggersee with an atomic bomb . The refrain also serves as the namesake for the enclosed punk album. Because of this title, the band is often assigned to the anti-German scene . While Koljah certainly knows how to agree with this labeling, he sees the designation primarily as an attempt at defamation. In addition, the band mentioned in the interviews that their lyrics were not "1: 1 serious" and that they "refuse to be pro-German."

Music videos

Two videos were shot for the two songs Das Trojanische Pferd (November 18, 2016) and Pizza (January 9, 2017), which were released before the album was released. After the publication, the videos on Baggersee , Liebe Grüße and patient collective followed .

reception

criticism

Professional reviews
Reviews
source rating
Backspin Hip Hop Magazine
laut.de
Music Express
tonspion.de
rappers.in

The album received mostly positive reviews. Alexande Austel from the Laut.de e-zine rated it 4 out of 5 stars and sums it up that the antelope gang with their "self-irony, weird humor, social criticism, stupidities, but also deeper issues such as depression, suicide and self-esteem" still like experienced before positive response. It is a "funny and thought-provoking album" .

Dennis Pohl from Spiegel Online certified the new album to be “musically balanced and lyrically more complex than its predecessor”.

Frank Sawatzki from Musikexpress magazine writes that the album “amounts to a settlement with God, the world, Germany and with ourselves” . The antelope gait remains "unpredictable and agile" . The numerous political allusions on the record are also particularly emphasized.

Arne Lehrke from the hip-hop magazine Juice particularly emphasizes the diversity of the album: the record is "sometimes less, sometimes more politically charged" and "despite its approach to a large number of genres" it results in "a coherent album" . He sums up that this is a “triumph of versatility” .

The reviewer from the hip-hop blog rap.de even described it as “anti-Pope misanthropy par excellence” . So Danger Dan "continues to play his singing talent" and Panik Panzer shines "with exciting flows and unpredictable rhymes" .

Marinus Seeleitner from tonspion.de places the album in the overall context of the music genre: Hip-Hop is "not just rap technique and beat production, but also a lot of statement and (sub) attitude, and the antelope gang does not lead to anything very quickly" .

A more critical voice comes from the hip-hop blog rappers.in . For reviewer Yannik Gölz it is "a spongy and uncertain album by an antelope gang that somehow stands beside itself musically and thematically and tries to make it into a self-image with a lot of layers of irony". His verdict: "Works in places, but doesn't work all the time."

Steffen Bauer from MZEE also rated the album largely positively. In his review, he writes that there are many songs on the album that “take the notch of political tracks with a wink” . However, he complains about the beats that they are “mostly quite inconspicuous and pale in comparison to the lyrics” . Overall, he finds that “between laughing and crying, you are presented with the broad spectrum of human experiences” and you are “well entertained” .

The backspin Hip Hop magazine rated the album in a collective review of the entire editorial with 7.6 out of 10 stars. The album was mostly favorably discussed, although not everyone in the editorial team liked the punk parts.

Charts

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Anarchy and everyday life
  DE 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 01/27/2017 (6 weeks)
  AT 5 02/03/2017 (3 weeks)
  CH 27 01/29/2017 (1 week)

The album reached number 1 in the German album charts and thus represented the commercial high point of their career so far. The album was also able to place in the respective charts in the neighboring countries of Austria and Switzerland. In Austria it came in 5th place and in Switzerland 27th.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Antilopen Gang - New album and tour announced. BR Online , October 22, 2016, accessed February 22, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Atomic bomb on Germany - punk rock album of the Antilopen Gang. Retrieved January 2, 2017 .
  3. ↑ The Antilopen Gang and Bela B sing about the best dish in the world: “Pizza” , vice.com , January 6, 2017
  4. ↑ Bela B, Campino, MC Motherfucker, Wölfi and Monchi sing songs by the Antilopen Gang , vice.com , January 3, 2017
  5. ↑ a b c d e Frank Weiffen: ANTILOPEN GANG: The dictatorship of the Lumpenproletariat . In: Ox . 130 (February / March 2017) - ( ox-fanzine.de ).
  6. ↑ a b c Alexander Austel: "Germany must go!" Laut.de , January 16, 2017, accessed on August 11, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Antelope Walk: Anarchy and Everyday Life. Discogs , accessed August 11, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Frederike Arns: Danger Dan von der Antilopengang: Save the world with pizza. Hamburger Morgenpost , February 2, 2017, accessed on August 11, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Conversation with antelope gang: "The dudes on the street corner". Die Tageszeitung , November 21, 2017, accessed on August 11, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Marcus Staiger : “Who should throw the atomic bomb on Germany?” An interview with Antilopen Gang. Vice , January 20, 2017, accessed August 11, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Channel of the Antelope Gang. YouTube , accessed August 11, 2019 .
  12. ↑ a b The opinion of the editors on "Anarchy and everyday life" of the antelope gang. Backspin Hip Hop Magazine , January 26, 2017, accessed August 11, 2019 .
  13. ↑ a b Alexander Austel: An album like a Lucky Luke comic: something for everyone. Laut.de , accessed on February 22, 2017 .
  14. ^ A b Frank Sawatzki: Review: Antilopen Gang - Anarchy and everyday life. Musikexpress , February 20, 2017, accessed February 22, 2017 .
  15. ↑ a b Marinus Seeleitner: antelope Gang - anarchy and everyday life. tonspion.de, February 19, 2017, accessed on February 22, 2017 .
  16. ↑ a b Yannik Gölz: Review: Antilopen Gang - Anarchy and everyday life. rappers.in, February 6, 2017, accessed on March 12, 2017 .
  17. ↑ Rapper Antilopen Gang: Antidepressants are not a solution either. Spiegel Online , January 27, 2017, accessed August 11, 2019 .
  18. ^ Arne Lehrke: Antilopen Gang - Anarchy and everyday life // Review. Juice , February 20, 2017, accessed February 22, 2017 .
  19. ↑ Review: Antelope Gang - Anarchy and Everyday Life. rap.de, accessed on February 22, 2017 .
  20. ↑ Steffen Bauer: Antilopen Gang - Anarchy and everyday life . In: MZEE.com . February 2, 2017 ( mzee.com [accessed October 14, 2018]).
  21. ↑ Chart discography Germany - Austria - Switzerland
  22. ↑ Rap trio Antilopen Gang with “Anarchy and Everyday Life” at number one on the charts. Rolling Stone , August 11, 2017; accessed August 11, 2019 .